linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtdblock: Update old JFFS2 mention in Kconfig

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Message-Id: <20210806200546.394389-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Fri,  6 Aug 2021 22:05:46 +0200
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Cc:     Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtdblock: Update old JFFS2 mention in Kconfig

On Sun, 2021-08-01 at 23:45:07 UTC, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> JFFS2 can be mounted without 'mtdblock' since
> a really, really long time. Some git-log
> archaeology shows that in 2006 it was possible
> to use 'root=' to mount a JFFS2 rootfs:
> 
>   commit e9482b4374e2596e6f3f1ab30c4ea469f4ac6311
>   Author: Joern Engel <joern@...fh-wedel.de>
>   Date:   Tue May 30 14:25:46 2006 +0200
> 
>       [MTD] Allow alternate JFFS2 mount variant for root filesystem.
> 
>       With this patch, "root=mtd3" and "root=mtd:foo" work for a JFFS2 rootfs.
> 
> However, there are still plenty of tutorials that mention
> mtdblock, so users are still taking this route. Update the Kconfig
> to reflect this is no longer needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...labora.com>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel